me third country hunger i think as well as. the boring the climate change questions the sort you show why are those boring is not boring and just that it's. we never get anywhere and your problem you're one of the problems here is that you think all the countries have equal say like they're supposed to do no i don't i don't really think as morris that i think the united states of america why but that bad well they've got they've got all the power in the world have got the money they've got the influence money talks are a money talks and i do anything i mean is i mean for the common people you know if by walking on the streets or whatever i mean what are they going to do for us you know it's just more or less you know they get face time and they're going to be like oh yeah we did this do that or whatever but it's nothing if we all stopped believing in that water what's really the other option i guess i mean if martin luther king said you know it is the i have a dream or the avenue i nightmare you

had a dream so i think that what we all hope for is that we don't have that fatalistic view that we hope there's always a possibility to change the bottom line is that the un's agenda is important to the peoples of the world whether or not they're actually able to do anything about it remains to be free and until then we've got a lot of traffic. and i'll be back with the headlines in a couple of minutes so you sir. wealthy

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we're running top stories off today. you had. a strain the country's democratic tradition with the far right party claiming that they. denied freedom of speech. and other stories that have shaped the week russia awaits a decision on the extradition of one of its most wanted terror suspects from poland but he was detained on friday but later released. no way reach a. border the energy rich a barren sea to afford over the waters. that's an earthly paradise for more than one and a half million stay with us. the phone good delta a handicap place with a multitude of islands but not

a speck of giant land where you just jump into the boat and off you go to wherever you want for centuries this delta was where russians falling for black caviar giant fish can be found yeah boy of the two told man were holding up a catfish part of its tail was half a metre long number of birds here in spring and autumn runs into the millions the first places a purpose roberta's they're lucky to have these islands you can easily lose your way in this tangle of beautiful plants the seed of how water sparkles on these leaves coming across turtles bathing in the sun there are few meters from where you live is not something out of the imagery of the delta wild is just a few steps away from civilization. and structure and is a city in russia south it has a kremlin made of white stone and another symbol of the city is the swoons that

live in the pond in the center of this one stayed there all the year round most of all the people of astrakhan the proud of the volga river russia's most famous river drains into the caspian sea in the astrakhan region. from above it looks as though the wide and deep river runs into an obstacle one hundred thirty kilometers from the caspian sea. it's into hundreds of small narrow channels this area is known as the volga delta it's almost a triangle shaped most of its territory covered with water. to go from bastrop than southwards you'll soon see feels totally list includes a. treasure of the colgan delta the fish come here to spoon. fish attract migrating birds. million beds of three hundred species come here the

spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over the russia south that come here to fish and hunt unfortunately though many species perished as a result. more the at that time women like to dress up they hatch with feathers hair and thought this was very much invoke the heron only has five feathers on its head so it's thousands of parents were killed in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was a desolate place a special expedition that came here from moscow in one nine hundred twelve found no trace of it the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the deltas natural environment to his nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was

a civil war at the time the country's coffers were empty and the future was unclear that's what the situation was like when they started to create a nature reserve into balkan doubt. it's hard to reach the reset for master it's a hundred kilometers through flooded fields and the ferry to the other bank of the volga. there is a fifteen kilometer stretch of dirt road if you've reached the end of it you don't need the car anymore you have to take a boat because there's not much ground from all the way to the caspian sea. if you. reach the boundary of the nature reserve everywhere there are signs prohibiting entry and the person found trespassing can be punished by the rules. in all fairness such strict measures produced positive results soon after the nature reserve was founded. here with mills that he began with the first one nets were

found here and the first terran colonies were discovered in the reserve as well supported but that's cool retains the harry detrick coat of subsequent generations the queer gets the. altie fishel islands are the only spots of drawing down to reserve the house ranges and dogs with their families. scientists doing research they hit too. early in the morning on the phone just to be tripped on the raf and ranger rat to beg off set out on an expedition to make a record of the birds in the reserve all right let's go today to the secret channel to see what's going on there and over there will be how high the water is we'll look at the tides marks yes we'll check them in. the toybox in the river charles act as natural measuring posts for the stuff. as

rangers make the rounds of the reserve they're supposed to see whether the tide box had been washed away is difficult to see though from the boats if they are secure enough. they make the rounds once a month during high season each time they follow the same route. you on the follow just puts down a description of each bird he sees in the notebook. the data is then processed and entered into a fifty year old book chronicling the state of the natural environment. everything is put on record even the first groping over from for example the first turtle emerging from the water just some date and the first crossed snakes out of its hideout the first darling the first the for. swallow the sun when baby birds start to leave their nests is also noted. the

white tailed eagle is one of the biggest birds of prey in the asteroid and nature of. these birds have a wingspan of up to two in the hof meter. tailed he who is the fourth biggest bird in europe birds of the species in the volga delta mostly feed on fish they catch the fish themselves or grab them from other birds such as camarines. sometimes they call she'd cormorants by pretending to attack them when you normally they don't go out or cormorants but as soon as they sense danger they drill each down to fish and get out of the way as fast as they can eagles get the prize crowns are their rivals and they too trying to pick up the fish in other words why tailed eagles and crowns live of requirements of workers. white

tailed eagles are not as common in any other area of russia as they are in the volga delta. so say one of the habitats for these birds in the world. about two hundred eagle pairs nests in the reserve alone. european only come to astrakhan for the expressed desire of watching them in the wilds. of myriad nobody minute once a visiting german cameraman was so thrilled by a dozen white tailed eagles flying overhead that he told the drama to halt the car there and then started filming them when i told him that fine white tailed eagles were nothing out of the ordinary he said that only a few such eagles nested in his country all of them in germany had been recorded and. there were under constant observation. in

recent years people with cameras have been exploring the underwater part of the delta. this field office of fish biologists and kill you know there's an underwater camera in the morning they go to one of the remove channels. and clear ideal conditions for. nearly sixty fish species in habits of all the data including. their famous for their black caviar. there's a total ban on fishing in the reserve it's employees are only allowed to use fishing rods even local people their interests are fishing. but i can't show how big it was even if i spread my arms to the limit imagine this tall man holding a catfish while part of its tail about half a metre long is on the ground. during high water the fish move to the flood plain

to spawn it's here that baby fish scramble out of hardware data the receding water takes them back to the river. both fry and fish come here after spawning the warm water stimulates underwater vegetation this is a comfortable place for the young it's like a kindergartner. for the time their own new fish in this aquatic nursery so the cameraman switches his attention to the plants. such as you know couriers fairly strong here it seems this tangle. service as a filter purifying the water flowing through it. as a result it becomes clear. when i go down there i clearly see that there remains the bottom and the seaweed are all covered with mud.

even in the summer that clear water makes it possible to see that the seaweed is so thick it looks like a forest. but also find there. some of the most beautiful flowers in the delta. what's more here you can see above gradually from the water the interesting thing about water lilies is that they conceal themselves under water during the night and at dawn onto the water surface to bloom again. to little to assist the most famous plant of the delta. a few decades ago the sacred symbol of the buddhists took up nearly a quarter of a hit. today to occupy twenty nine thousand. what. this is a lotus leaf from which the little boy in the water will slide down like mercury.

these reddish leaves differ significantly from the others look at how these leaders parco. notices considered a symbol of purity and in lighting meant. disbelief to help people understand the origin of their desires and reefs tiredness sharpens the senses and even provides protection from evil forces. persian and i think of the last meal lotuses makes you think your version was shot . we'd sell the most common plants and of all the delta they grow all the over the place have many of the deltas islands are in fact nothing more than a fifth of reeds growing in shallow water. some of them can even grow up to six

metres in height. motorboats can't go too far off without damaging its screw propeller. fortunately the wooden you know you can easily lose your way in a rethink it it's not like a forest here you can tell where north especially if the skies over cost and the stars are nonphysical and rethink its constraint for many many kilometers in the queue. the noise of an engine is heard from a far it's the p.c. . it signals that there's a trespasser in the area in the range it immediately calls based with the gods. a few minutes later a rat finds a pooches next to one of the read on it dimitri there is a net. oh yes i see it. the net is full of fish most likely it was last checked

a long time ago. the bulk of the fish. break may have killed them all. they then set the surviving fish free. zone of the kind of fish is it anyway shall we let them go dimitri yes sure. the boat continues on its way to more and that's a found there by the ranger space again l.o.l. oh there he did it there are three mets here again so shall i remove them right i'm going to do it right away. empties one of the nets and leaves it in place dogs will come here in the evening to ambush the poacher. in the evening while decent parents descend on the area. but it's here has little

fear of humans they know from experience that they will not be disturbed while they're in the reserves which is why there are so many. to visit them in the movie. the. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the streets. colonel of the chilian on forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. sergeant of the us army. trying to become an american by getting part in the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey.

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the morning school confederates the voters. that don't want to get to a faraway lands to inspect it's called. cluny. moment is the most common in the delta. number of koreans here runs into hundreds of thousands. to cover schools of kilometers such a fish the staple food. but here their prey can be found everywhere the delta just moments to bring to sense of economists here. this claim is considered to be a fairly young one it appears only forty years ago. today numbers about fifty thousand mists. thinner and less look like round funnels thirty to forty centimeters in diameter these shallow funnels are made from thirty packed reeds.

one trees might be home to schools of nests. on scorching hot days and old birds zoltan on the edge of their nests lapping their wings to cool it down or they also make sure that their hatchlings are kept out of the sun through a through and through the baby birds learned how to fly an interim. at that time flocks of call mercer spectacle on a par with a hitchcock movie. cameron says perkins often go to fish to get a pelican stay all this common in the reserve. just very quickly often feed together one of the former sports are sure to begin circling over it. calm they also want their share. he would be hard pushed to find chemicals in the delta. these very cautious beds next as far away from people

as possible. to see pelicans you need to enter the area. with a full. it's the caspian sea. of a delta looks like a nature of the coast of. us it's still part of the. pier it stretches two hundred kilometers wide. flood waters right now are about one point four meters deep at other times the depth is between a meter and one point two meters this is the middle of the delta there are a lot of fish here because of the river of the thoroughly warmed by the sun there is a wealth of vegetation and a good deal of food for fish and birds down there. back in the one nine hundred fifty s. there were one thousand five hundred pelicans. since then that number has

dropped to five hundred. it's very difficult to spot a colony of pelicans in the thick reads. they spend an hour. before the boat runs into a pelican colony. baby birds hatched a short time ago. at the. colony was here forty years ago but then they disappear that it has been grown in the past four years in the beginning there were only five nast's then forty and now we have one hundred. pelicans look like very. they have. short seek legs and their tail is visible. many religions with the sacred animals

muslims believe that a pelican brought students for the construction of mecca and its bill. and in europe the pecker is a symbol of parents who love legend has it taken so rich their chest certainly that peaks to feed hungry babies with blood. bulletins play with each other only for the duration of one season build their nests in the reeds tickets. at first so i say look like a pile of garbage twigs. there are two or three baby birds to a nest born blind a kid. does start to grow seven days later after ten weeks they can fly.

there are only a handful of them are here and we try not to disturb them if we can help it we do keep records of them but we don't do any detailed research. even the gods make a point of not approaching on islands where pelicans are nesting in fact the gods live in floating cabins and they visit the ivan delta they stay there for only three days at a time. have you seen many pelicans nicholai there are about a hundred nast's here and in grown ups there are some but others are still very young. compared to pelicans there are thousands of swan nests in the delta. in the last century the swan population is rapidly shrinking due to the hunting.

cannot fly so poachers would take that opportunity to cram them into nets. and the them with sticks. now that catching swans is prohibited the population has started to increase. in the fifty years only five pairs of swan nested in the ball delta but now the numbers have gone up hundreds of times over us. this one the scene is a symbol of devotion as it was thought that once pet they stay together for knife. as soon as they settle down in the large plot and start building nests as a rule other birds anywhere nearby welcome.

people because they're worthy of the appearing nesting season the female seats on the nest while the male swims around to guard against intruders. swans are very strong birds they don't like the presence of other birds especially glee's sometimes swans even cheese geese out from a shared habitat. movie there are five to seven eggs in a swans nest. or something frightens them that they leave their nests. crews often use this tactic to steal the eggs. or get the a couple of always accompany motor boats when they reach the end of their section they hand over the boat turned another couple of crowns the man in the boat is to preoccupy its noses when the boat approaches the nest the noise of the engines

scares the bird away. to get into the nest just steal the eggs as a result the sets this room and. astro reservists called the floating venice of russia for its calm and beautiful nature. people come here every year to find a quiet place under the sun and in the peace. of the dusk descends on the river maybe duck enough to see a spectacular sea flux of swans flying into the sunset. fish

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